Michigan · Nonprofit
KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC
KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,377 to it, the largest being Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund ($114,327). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Community Action Houseportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $130k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
75% of KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $108k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Incshared funderslocalMI · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 106 organizations near you
- Community Action Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Linn Benton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Solutions Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Emergency Reliefportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving S Gilmore Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 126 organizations near you
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Inland Northwestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vhf Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC?
- KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,377 to it, the largest being Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund ($114,327). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $428,377 in grants to KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC?
- Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund is the largest funder on record, with $114,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALAMAZOO VALLEY GLEANERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing